Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-26
GOLD KUN DAn1n.

The following is an extraet from
in the New York Fl
nancial and Mining Record. The
letter was written from Bsockenridge,
Colorado, on Oct. 20, 1886, spd was
re-published in the Summit County
Leader. published in breckenridge,
from which paper we clipped the ex-
tract that follows, giving aa account
Of the discoveries made BY Moody
and Williams, who have been engag-
ed in prospecting in this vicinity the
past few months:
"In 1883 ! San Juan prospecting |
party, Messrs. Moody, Dean, Briggs,
and Williams, made their advent in
Summit county, and commenced .
system Of prospecting, near Lincoln
City, FIVE miles east of Breckenridge.
Their seasons operation did not ter
inmate wholly adventitious, because
the territory selected was'too gener-
ally taken up or occupied. Mr.. E. G.
Moody, the "Comet Miner" with his
eagle eye, after soaring around"
over the many mining localities of
the Upper Blue River Basin, came to
the conclusion that the region was
extremely favored, and in it he would
build his aeyrie," where in a few years
he would ssincubate" "brood of eag-
let's" 1.-THE writer must have reference
to the lesser denominations of U. s.
gold coin, corresponding and next to
the $40 gold pieces-the eagle"
En.] that would dispel the lethargy
and dropping spirits of the denizens
of the worked-out placer regions and
played-out carbonate fields lying off
to the east of the Blue river and the
edge of timber line, with Brecken-
ridge forming the central southwest
area.
As winter approached the Moody
outfit broke camp and hied back to
the San Juan country to spend the
winter, fully determined, however, to
return in the coming spring as soon
as the winters snow would permit.
In June, 1884, they did return and
pitched their tents on Delaware Flats.
On Saturday, June 21st, the party OF
four, divided into couples, with picks
shovels, pans and lunch, departed
} from camp, Moody and Williams Sc
) lecting the north slope of Discovery
Hill and west slope of Parker's Hill
where in all likelihood the "paren
!, source" or "feeders" from whence the
, placer gold of Delaware Flats, ane
o Hugh's Flats must have originated
Dean and Briggs selected for thei
$ days observation and prospecting
!. the Gold Run Basin. At eventid
: the prospectors re-assembled at thei
d camping out place, and as natura
!. consequence each party reported thei
d days experience. Dean and Brigg
selected place a short distance t
the east of the Preston Pass and Al
Line wagon road, and hard by Shoe
= = Bros. Big Pittsburgh location, upo
II II the dumps of which they panned fl
=" vorable prospects. A couple of hole
were started, and in them they le
r. F. their tools. AS Moody and William
10 10 had nothing interesting to report, tt
be quartette concluded, as a Sunday
III stroll, all hands would, the next da
go to the Dean and Briggs localit
~ and "pass judgment" what should
It their guide upon the threshold of tt
,c- incoming of their first weeks pro
to pecting for 1884. Moody at once d
cided that he was we'll suited. TT
ut next day the four started early, wi
at full complement of tools, and in lie
mr. than week ground was uncover'
that gave birth to what is now
prominently known as "Mood.
la, Find' in the Gold Run Basin, Vi
in The Buffalo and Jumbo lodes of fir
his milling ores, panning from so cer
to $500 of gold to the pan. and c
III, tremely near the surface, embedd
.st in porphyritic metamorphic sa
10 rock. On the 10th of July, thl
@ weeks from the time Dean and Brig
struck the first lick with their pic
has the find became public to the Line
re- City folks. BY Monday, July IA
the slopes and top of Gibson T
,me were simply swarmlng with peoi
ood From that day, it may be said, n
yes. era, the present prosperity of the
mo per Blue River Basin, ushered it
in.
NJ A11J., .,ooa C1nka-Ior {